On Building Communities That Sustain One Another Through the Descent Every pilot learns it early: when the engine falters, you do not simply let the plane fall. You ease the nose toward the horizon and glide, using what you already have — altitude, momentum, the physics of lift — to extend your time aloft. The goal is not to stop the descent. The goal is to stretch the distance between where you are and where you must eventually land, buying time to find a clearing, a runway, a safe place to...

There are moments lately when I feel caught in a bind. I live in a beautiful home, and I am deeply grateful for it. At the same time, I know that the mortgage I pay feeds systems that generate enormous wealth for people who already have more than enough. My retirement savings grow in markets that expand through mechanisms of extraction and exploitation. The phone in my pocket connects me to you and to the wider world, yet it depends on global labor chains, rare earth minerals, and...

I spent yesterday morning rummaging through my bookshelf, looking for a particular Lenten devotional I’ve leaned on for years. The spine is creased. The margins are crowded with notes from a different season of my life. For a long time its familiar rhythm felt like a safety net. But as I stood there holding it, I realized something had shifted. The prayers were still good. The theology was still sound. But the terrain has changed. And I cannot keep using an old map simply because it once...